Sub £300 Laptop

rogerramjet

For someone going to college or lack of space and not wanting to do any processor/memory intensive work (playing games such as DOOM, etc) this laptop would be ideal. For basic burning cd's/dvd's word processing and internet surfing you can't go wrong.

I've two laptops, a old Tosh satillite pro 4300 (Celeron 600mhz processor and 198mb ram) and a Dell 2200 (pentium 1.6mhz processor (NOT Celeron), 1gb ram) both are running XP home (the tosh for evaluation purposes) and for basic word processing and internet surfing there isn't really any difference with the two.

Anyone thinking of buying this laptop, don't get into the mode of thinking you need the top *all singing all dancing spec*, or that this one must be crap because its cheap, as some have previously mentioned, look at what you want to do before deciding to buy and if you think its not going to meet your needs don't buy it.

One other thing, it has a guarantee which will be the same as a laptop costing £1500 and once out of guarantee you would have to pay for repairs, but in the case of a sub £300 laptop, would you bother, or just buy another?

Oh...its a good spec at the price offered

scousemicky

All excellant advice.......but some parts of smsmasters post dont make sense!

he says..'I have similar DELL Laptop with similar specs as this'...really???

hows is your 'FSB of 1066 MHz and I have overclocked it to 4GHz from 3GHz' ...........similar to 400 MHz FSB???

how is your 'my dual core processor has 2x 2MB Cache' .........similar to 1 MB Cache???

'512 MB RAM
Not enough for video editing and other memory hungry software. I recommend at least 1GB, even 2GB if you work with large multimedia files' ..........agreed.......but why recommend 1/2 gig ram for video editing when this lappy has onboard graphics???

'- 40 GB Hard Drive
This will fill up quickly if you have lots of media files.

- DVD ReWriter MultiDrive
This is great'............................agreed

'14.1" TFT Display
Decent'..................how do you know its decent???

'Microsoft Windows XP Home
Windows Vista is coming out this November, bear that in mind'........if vista is out in november can you tell me where i can buy a few million vista dvd's so i can sell em before xmas n become as rich as you!!!!

geezus (pun look at his avatar/pic by his name) dont post unless you know what your on about!!

as far as vista goes.....early 2007 say microsoft, thats for home users, corparate users ie business's will get it this year.

heres what microsoft say

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx

my view....if you can't wait till jan sales......specs/price wise grabbit

redders_:)

At this end of the market you really wouldn't WANT Vista, it would just be too slugish, i tried Beta 2 (i think it was) on my dual core 1.66 2GB RAM Dell laptop and it was slugish as hell!

janthemum

I have taken on board all comments and have reserved one of thes laptops to pick up today....
Now the question is do I also take the security package bit they say it is ££) ish and is half price and a ? a 6 cell battery for £7 ish rather than usual £60 (I cant copy and paste exact details as PC world site is presently down)

I am not the most computer savvy person and laptop is for DD. i guess the security thing will prevent viruses etc??

PLEASE advise THANKYOU:o

janthemum

......Can anyone help:o ........

smsmasters

janthemum wrote:

I have taken on board all comments and have reserved one of thes laptops to pick up today....
Now the question is do I also take the security package bit they say it is ££) ish and is half price and a ? a 6 cell battery for £7 ish rather than usual £60 (I cant copy and paste exact details as PC world site is presently down)

I am not the most computer savvy person and laptop is for DD. i guess the security thing will prevent viruses etc??

PLEASE advise THANKYOU:o

Don't bother with the security package. There are some very good free alternatives on the internet.

martinmarv

janthemum wrote:

I have taken on board all comments and have reserved one of thes laptops to pick up today....
Now the question is do I also take the security package bit they say it is ££) ish and is half price and a ? a 6 cell battery for £7 ish rather than usual £60 (I cant copy and paste exact details as PC world site is presently down)

I am not the most computer savvy person and laptop is for DD. i guess the security thing will prevent viruses etc??

PLEASE advise THANKYOU:o

Go for the battery - definitely worth it!

rogerramjet

janthemum wrote:

I have taken on board all comments and have reserved one of thes laptops to pick up today....
Now the question is do I also take the security package bit they say it is ££) ish and is half price and a ? a 6 cell battery for £7 ish rather than usual £60 (I cant copy and paste exact details as PC world site is presently down)

I am not the most computer savvy person and laptop is for DD. i guess the security thing will prevent viruses etc??

PLEASE advise THANKYOU:o

I agree with smsmasters, don't bother with their security package, download the free version of AVG antivirus software http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5 I notice they are also doing a free spyware now also http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-spyware-free/lng/us/tpl/v5 and also download the free version of Zone alarm which is a firewall http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp

Also, as martinmarv has stated go for the battery, at that price its foolish not to

TaBunny

PC world is doing a special offer of 2 months free service call cover normally £8.99 a month if you opt to take this it actually deducts it from the overall price making it an even better deal then you can just cancel the service line 2 weeks before they start to take out direct debits worth thinking about

GeoThermal

olykun wrote:

but you get one year warrenty with it, somewhat more than Dell's 90 day offering.

Dell's 90 day warranty is just the time period they will collect and return it if it is faulty. After the 90 days it is still under warranty but you have to pay for postage.